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(No Model) .J. W. WALTERS.

FENCE POST.

Patented Oct. 16, 1883."

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UNITED STATE PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN W. WALTERS, OF JONESVILLE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDREWINVALTERS', OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,978, dated October16, 1883.

Application filed April 10, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' j ects to provide a post having supports for the wires, and so formedat the base as to be readily secured in the ground, or to a suitablesupport, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects I obtain bythe means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which isrepresented a perspective view of a fence-post constructed according tomy invention:

The letter A indicates a fence-post which is cornpcsed of three strandsof wire twisted for a portion of their length to form the uprightportion of the post, and bent at their free ends first horizontally andthen at right angles, the vertical portions or being adapted to bedriven into the ground until the horizontal portions 12 gle wire loopedmidway between its ends, the

third strand being looped at its upper end and secured to the loop ofthe first-mentioned strands, forming the upper Wire support of the post.At suitable intervals are secured the other supports, which consist ofthe bent wires B, fastened between the twisted portions of the strands.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

A fence-post consisting ofthree strands of wire suitably twisted for aportion of their length, and having a loop at one end, the free ends ofthe wires being bent horizontally and vertically, and the twistedportion provided at suitable intervals with wire supports, substantiallyas and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses,this 28th day of February, 1883.

JOHN \V. WALTERS. Witnesses:

J. P. WYATT, DAN H. MILLs.

